Search The Directory The Web for Home > News > Online Archives > Wired > 1999 > Technology New! Submit a site   whatUseek Directory Site Listings:   Cheap PCs Tied to Rental Apps - A Utah company is selling personal computers at a loss, hoping to attract subscribers to its Internet-based software-leasing program. By Leander Kahney. [Wired News]   Chemical Erector Set for Release - A new drug for impotence provides the same uplifting results as Viagra, but without the frightening side effects. Uprima is undergoing trials before being presented to the FDA. [Wired News]   Chiapas' Well-Connected Rebels - For four years, the Zapatistas have used the Internet to fight the Mexican government in real time. Now, foreign groups are lending a hand, over shortwave radio. By Christopher Jones. [Wired News]   China Satellite Deal Shot Down - The Clinton administration reportedly reverses itself amidst charges that US satellite sales to China could harm national security. [Wired News]   Chip Accelerates Drug Screening - A new chip technology helps scientists match drugs to genetic mutations in humans. It may better arm doctors to recommend treatments. By Kristen Philipkoski. [Wired News]   Chip Blocks Cell-Phone Emissions - A new chip has been developed to protect users from cell-phone radiation. Litigation-conscious phone manufacturers are wary. By Polly Sprenger. [Wired News]   Chips Ahoy - Sony unveils its new PlayStation super-chip and wows an annual gathering of leading processor designers. Leander Kahney reports from San Francisco. [Wired News]   Chips Track Rogue Elephants - Officials in Thailand are trying to limit the stampede of illegal elephants in Bangkok by implanting microchips under their thick hides. The smuggled pachyderms are being used to panhandle tourists. [Wired News]   Chit-Chat: Whenever, Wherever - Coming to a Palm or pager near you: your buddy list. AOL, Microsoft, and Yahoo pair with communications vendors to provide instant messaging. By John Gartner. [Wired News]   Cisco Strikes Back - The network-hardware vendor responds to Lucent's acquisition of Ascend with a few juicy tidbits about a superfast new routing architecture. Details are scant so far. By Joanna Glasner. [Wired News]   Click Here for a Privacy Policy - Microsoft rolls out the Privacy Wizard, a pre-fab privacy service meant to proliferate privacy policies across the Web. Observers cautiously see it as a decent start for building privacy into the Web's data structure. By Chris Oakes. [Wired News]   Clone OS to Run Windows Apps - A Tasmanian company joins the growing ranks of developers cooking up programs that will run Windows applications without requiring software from Microsoft. By Joe Nickell. [Wired News]   Cloned Back to Life? - The Tasmanian Tiger has been extinct for three decades, yet some scientists think they can bring it back to life with some perfectly preserved DNA. Stewart Taggart reports from Australia. [Wired News]   Code-Breaking Record Shattered - In only 22 and a half hours, a bulky, homebrew computer cracks what was once the gold standard cipher for scrambling government data. The winner takes home US$10,000. By James Glave. [Wired News]   Collective Computing Breaks Up - Their little project tapped the power of idle computers on the Net to crack encryption codes in record time. Now the founders of Distributed.net go their separate ways. By Chris Oakes. [Wired News]   Colorado Girl Wins Science Prize - A 14-year-old particle physics student wins the Intel Science Talent Search, the youngest winner ever in the prestigious contest. [Wired News]   Coming Soon: Back Orifice 2000 - The Cult of the Dead Cow preps a new, more powerful release of its notorious hacking program -- just in time for Def Con 7. By Niall McKay. [Wired News]   Coming Soon: Movies On Demand? - French TV viewers will be able to download movies at their discretion. Also: Simon Schuster takes the e-book plunge. [Wired News]   Communicator Sings and Shops - What can you possibly add to a browser these days to make it hip? Netscape Communicator 4.7 tries shopping and music. [Wired News]   Compaq Adds Security to Handheld - Compaq debuts a handheld device with a built-in smart-card reader. Also: FedEx will provide package tracking to users of wireless handheld devices. [Wired News]     [ 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 ] Help build the largest human-edited directory on the web.   Submit a Site - Open Directory Project - Become an Editor

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